Posted January 24, 2020

Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley (Hachette, 5/5) Jonathan Gill, Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy (Abrams, 4/7) John Glatt, The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder (St.

Posted January 22, 2020

Her biggest discovery remains Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing, which she boosted just weeks after its release in August 2018. (Witherspoon has the film version in development at Fox 2000.) 2019 Performance Highlights Average sale: 18,500 copies Strongest: The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes (November: 34,000 copies) Weakest: The Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo (April: 5,000 copies) Behind the Picks Reese has made 30 selections so far, and she picks every book herself

Posted January 21, 2020

He was a scout at Chernin Entertainment, after working at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Anna Watkins will join United Agents in March as a foreign rights agent. She was head of rights at Aitken Alexander. Co-founder of consultancy Broadthink and romance publisher BroadLit and former longtime Universal executive Nancy Cushing-Jones has launched NCJ Publishing Services.

Posted December 16, 2019

the 75th anniversary of publication of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, a three-day event to be held in June 2020 at Castle Howard (the location for the film and TV versions). Obituaries Editor and publisher Elisabeth Sifton, 80, died at home in Manhattan on Friday, December 13. Sifton was executive vice president of Knopf from 1987 to 1992 and then senior vice president and publisher of FSG and editor at large of Hill & Wang.

Posted December 11, 2019

Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman will executive produce Kavalier & Clay, and Paramount Television will produce (since Paramount Pictures owns the film/TV rights). Initiatives This year James Patterson will give holiday gifts totaling over $200,000 to Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country as well, in addition to his annual holiday bonuses to indie booksellers.

Posted November 11, 2019

At HG Literary, Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts was promoted to vp, foreign rights, and Rhea Lyons was named director, film/TV rights. Controversial Nobel prize laureate Peter Handke‘s originating publisher Suhrkamp prepared a lengthy document, “intended mainly for the benefit of foreign publishers of Handke’s work who had found themselves, like Suhrkamp, in an uncomfortable position as a result of Handke’s record of downplaying Serb atrocities against Muslims in the Bosnia war.

Posted October 15, 2019

ACM UK translation rights will be handled by Susanna Lea Associates, as Abner Stein continues to handle UK rights for ACM US, and the current co-agents for ACM US will continue handling translation rights. Managing partners David Kuhn, Todd Shuster, and Esmond Harmsworth say in the announcement: “We knew from the moment we began discussions with Toby and our other new UK colleagues that his and their taste, values, and commitment to quality books in all categories aligned

Posted July 31, 2019

Previously, she was foreign rights director and US co-agent for Rights People for 10 years. Vintage Anchor publisher Anne Messitte wrote a longer remembrance of vice president, executive director of publicity and social media Russell Perreault, who died on July 27 at 52. She writes, “Russell was a beloved colleague – exuberant, funny, precocious, smart, and in possession of an infectious enthusiasm for books and authors.

Posted July 26, 2019

Rafael Chaiken has been promoted to acquisitions editor at SUNY Press, acquiring in film studies, Jewish studies, and philosophy. Carolyn Bodkin has been promoted to director, foreign rights at HarperCollins. She will expand her role to oversee foreign rights for fiction titles on the William Morrow hardcover list, in addition to all titles from Avon, Avon Impulse, William Morrow Paperbacks, Dey Street and fiction titles on the Harper trade list.

Posted June 28, 2019

” But trailers and previews are extracts of the authentic original work (imagine if Netflix went out and produced their own footage to promote studios films), and they are invoking the “full-length” version as if the Snapshot is an authentic but shorter “version,” which it is not. That support article also acknowledges, “Snapshots can also serve as a study guide, helping highlight the main takeaways or refresh your memory.”

Posted May 22, 2019

Carol Sklenicka, Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer (Scribner, 12/3) Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey (Knopf, 9/24) Maura Spiegel, Sidney Lumet: His Life and His Films (St. Martin’s, 12/10) Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman (Seal, 11/12) Amy Shira Teitel, Moonshot: Two Women Pilots and Their Historic Fight for Female Spaceflight (Grand Central, 1/21) Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top (Harper One, 9/24) Leah Vernon

Posted May 7, 2019

At Corvisiero Literary Agency, Kaitlyn Johnson has been promoted to associate agent and intern supervisor. Rudy Cecera joins as film & television sub-rights agent. Cecera was previously an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer. Asharee Peters has been promoted to office manager at Holiday House. Picks Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book — previewed in our Buzz Books: Spring/Summer — is the Barnes & Noble Book Club pick for May. (It’s also the Indie Next No.

Posted May 1, 2019

“To be released over the next several years,” that line-up includes the Lewis series, as well as a feature-film adaptation of David W. Blight‘s Pulitzer-winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Awards The Jewish Book Council’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was awarded to Michael David Lukas‘s The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Distribution Casemate Group will distribute Histria Books worldwide starting June 1.

Posted April 29, 2019

It doesn’t often happen here. It’s a sign of the times.” Film/TV Lagardere Studios has an exclusive first-look rights deal to all French-language content uploaded to Wattpad for film, TV, and digital content. Lagardere Studios president and ceo Christophe Thoral said, “This collaboration with Wattpad Studios is a wonderful opportunity and provides our fiction producers in France with a new source of creation.

Posted April 22, 2019

5 percent commission, since they are earning fees on the entire package. (In a standard book representation arrangement, on the license of film/TV rights the 15 percent agency commission is split equally between the primary literary agent and the film/TV co-agent.) In turn, at least some literary agents will then return that commission to the author – but that isn’t always the case.

Posted April 17, 2019

Warren Adler, 91, author of books adapted into films including The War of the Roses and Random Hearts were adapted into feature films, died Monday from complications from liver cancer. Adler was in the vanguard of authors to experiment with self-publishing ebook versions of his backlist, acquiring the rights and publishing ebooks directly through his own company.

Posted April 10, 2019

Theater R.J. Palacio‘s novel Wonder, already adapted into a successful film, will become a Broadway play. Tony award-winning Hamilton producer Jill Furman will serve as lead producer. Distribution Hachette UK formally opened their new book distribution facility, the Hely Hutchinson Centre (named for Tim Hely Hutchinson, who retired as CEO of Hachette UK in 2017).

Posted March 8, 2019

” Bookselling Samuel French Theatre & Film Bookshop has closed after being vandalized on March 5 and will not reopen. Owners posted on Facebook: “The police require us to close the store pending their investigation and with our staff’s safety in mind, we are unable to reopen it.” They had planned to close the store for good on March 31. Book Tours EL James announced dates for a US book tour for The Mister, which will be released April 16.

Posted February 25, 2019

” Tracy Fisher and Michelle Feehan at William Morris Endeavor are handling translation rights to the book (and the agency represents film/tv rights as well). Imprints Hachette UK’s Octopus is launching Endeavor, a narrative nonfiction imprint that will publish popular science, culture, business and science books. Publishing director Claudia Connal, formerly editorial director at Simon & Schuster UK and Little Brown UK, will lead the imprint.

Posted February 12, 2019

Trewin says in part, “This is a chance to return to my roots in the entertainment industry and I am looking forward to making live events, theatre and film production part of the mix of my new endeavor. I have authors who I would go to the wall for and they will always be my first priority but I can’t wait to get to work on seeing what else is out there too.